Sasquatch Music Festival 2010

It's been a week now since Sasquatch ended and we began our journey back to Calgary and I've finally finished picking through about six hundred photos to find my favourites to show you. I had an amazing time and plan on returning next year, if you haven't ever been to Sasquatch then I urge you to check it out. The people there are great, the scenery is unbelievable, and just the overall atmosphere of the festival is incredible. 

I'll post a good friends account of what happened last year when we attempted Sasquatch, long story short it was an amazing failure.

New Zoo Video

Made another trip to The Calgary Zoo and ended up taking more video footage than I did photos. New photo's of the trip will be posted here and here in the next couple of days.

Click here to watch the video in HD!

The Glenbow Museum at 1.4

 

I recently made a trip The Glenbow Museum here in Calgary and once again brought along my 50mm 1.4 lens and left it at 1.4. It was the last day of the Real Life exhibit by Ron Mueck and Guy Ben-Ner which included a video shot entirely in an Ikea and the main attraction, three extremely realistic sculptures of an old woman in bed, a newborn baby, and a baby's head. The amount of realism in the three was incredible but the scale of these sculptures was just as fascinating, the old woman was roughly the size of an infant, the newborn baby was about 12 feet long and the baby's head was 9 feet high!

We decided to leave the Real Life exhibit for last and ended up spending a lot of time in the Asia exhibit. I hadn't been to the Glenbow since junior high and when we finally finished exploring every section three hours had flown by and it was finally time to see the Real Life exhibit we had left for last. Claire and I headed back down to the second floor and just before entering the exhibit I saw the dreaded "No Photos Allowed" sign. I had been looking forward to getting tons of photos of these sculptures all day and wasn't leaving without getting some sort of footage of these amazing sculptures. So with my camera at my hip I began recording a video and managed to get some pretty bad footage of the exhibit.

Head over here to watch it in HD but don't blame me if you get motion sick. 

You can find all of the photo's I took of the trip either here in the Photography section or check out my flickr stream. 

Levin

The Zoo at 1.4

 

I recently picked up Nikon's 50mm f1.4 lens and decided to head over to The Calgary Zoo and take a bunch of shots, all in 1.4. After some trial and error (mostly error) I managed to come out with a handful of decent photos. I don't think I've ever been to The Zoo during the winter but after this trip I'm sure I'll be back a couple of times before winter is finished. There's so many indoor exhibits that I hardly spent any time outdoors, it was a pretty cold day and really the only time I felt it was running from one building to the next.

I had a chance to check out the new Enmax Conservatory and I have to say that it was a huge let down, it doesn't even compare to what it replaced. I remember being a little kid and going to the zoo and one of the highlights of the trip was always the huge indoor garden that was so full of butterflies that they would land on you if you were still enough. It's such a shame because you can tell that they put tons of money into the new conservatory but all it really ends up being is a couple of small indoor gardens..but that's enough about that. 

Here's a short video I made of the fish at The Zoo. Head over here to watch it in Supreme Definition. 

Check out my flickr stream too, I recently received a pro account as a christmas gift from a friend of mine  and vowed to update it more often. 

Levin